• WOKE IDEAS, DRAG QUEENS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM
     Subscribe to my monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy WOKE IDEAS, DRAG QUEENS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM A man is convicted in a court of law for the crime of murder.  He is sentenced to life in prison.  Another man in ancient times named Socrates is convicted of corrupting the youth...
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  • THOMAS HOBBES, CHATgpt AND PLAGIARISM
    Subscribe to my monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy THOMAS HOBBES,  CHATgpt, and PLAGIARISMI was hoping that the headline would attract your attention.  What does Thomas Hobbes have to do with AI?  His Leviathan was published in 1651, long before anyone could imagine that...
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  • EVIL -- The Killing of Tyre Nichols
    Subscribe to our monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing Philosophy  EVILI assume that everyone reading this blog post knows about the January 5, 2023 brutal beating and subsequent death of  19-year-old Tyre Nichols by six members of the Memphis Tennessee police department.[1]  In a recent...
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  • TYRANNIES OF THE MAJORITY IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
    Subscribe to our monthly Philosophy Newsletter and get a Free copy of Understanding Philosophy: The Smart Student's Guide to Reading and Writing PhilosophyTYRANNIES OF THE MAJORITY IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: Segregation, Voter Suppression, and Gerrymandering 1. Justifiable limits to majority power In his famous book On Liberty, John Stuart Mill writes that ancient concerns about...
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  • Lessons in Magick: When Giants Fall
    Death does not occur one, singular time in our lives. Sure. There is a death that is a finale, there is no coming back from. None of us can escape that physical, biological ending. Well, I mean, you know what I mean. Reincarnation beliefs and such aside. There are multiple tiny deaths we experience throughout life. And, sadly, no, I am not referring to la petite...
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  • What We Wear in the Afterlife: Burial Dress Codes Around the World
    Death is one of the few experiences shared by all humans, yet the way we honor the dead varies greatly from culture to culture. One of the most fascinating parts of funeral traditions is the way people dress their loved ones for their final journey. From simple white cloths to ornate garments, burial dress codes reveal deep spiritual symbolism, beliefs about the afterlife, and the values of...
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  • A Gospel of Remembrance
    For centuries they warned that to call oneself divine was arrogance, that even whispering we share in God’s light was heresy. Yet what if that warning was born not from holiness, but from forgetfulness? We were never meant to see God as a being far away on a throne of clouds. We were meant to recognize the same fire within our own breath. To remember that divinity is not something we earn...
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